Anti-Street Harassment Week
SDG 11 : Sustainable Cities & Communities – An Overview
For the entire month of April, Safecity made a case for safety, especially women’s safety in our cities and communities – one of the targets of UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. As a part of this worldwide effort, our focus was on Goal 11 – ‘Make cities inclusive, safe, [...]Read more
Working with Safecity: Jyotsna’s Experience
Read Jyotsna’s account of her experiences on resuming work with Safecity. Jyotsna is working closely with Salini, our Program & Outreach Officer, in Delhi on the campaigns for safer public spaces and are in the creative process of scaling Safecity’s work in the city. Jyotsna [...]Read more
Street Sexual Harassment: Indian Subcontinent
Our amazing Twitter Curator, Vandita Morarka @vanditamorarka,held a TweetChat during #AntiSHWeek on Street Sexual Harassment with respect to the Indian Subcontinent.What ensued was a passionate exchange of views & solutions.Here is the whole TweetChat!Read more
International Anti-Street Harassment Week: Take a Stand against Street Harassment
The Digital Empowerment Foundation collaborated with us on an online campaign to spread awareness about 'Preventing Sexual Harassment through Digital Tools.'Read more
Reclaiming Public Spaces through Sports: Bandra Plot
On the 16th of April, the last day of the Anti- Street Harassment week, 13 girls from Bandra Plot occupied a space generally used by boys. During our campaign with the girls of Bandra Plot, it became clear that the girls did not access many public spaces for a variety of reasons- [...]Read more
Reclaiming Public Spaces through Sports: Indira Nagar
On the April 13, 2016, 35 girls from the community of Indira Nagar occupied a space generally used by boys to play a few matches of Kabaddi. During our campaign with Vacha, several girls of Indira Nagar spoke about feeling unsafe in Karkare Garden- an open space located near [...]Read more